Lorenz boasts the unique trait of being the best caster with access to battalion vantage. Tomes are a great weapon type for b. vantage because of its easier ohko’s and long range. For a normal Lorenz this enables some neat tricks like gambiting enemies and then sweeping them up, but there’s achievable benchmarks that let him just kill everything in one hit instead.
Apart from the stat boosters, this build is more or less the same as what you’d do for a normal Lorenz. This page will moreso be a catalogue of midgame benchmarks so you know what numbers to boost up to.
Stat benchmarks
We’ll start at chapter 10 because chapter 9 is all demonic beasts and you probably
won’t have level 20 in chapter 8.
Story missions:
Paralogues:
*these maps have outlier enemies that can be avoided. If you do, the numbers are more in line with other maps.
Usage I derived the above benchmarks based on the toughest enemy you can kill on enemy phase that actually threatens Lorenz. Simply being a warlock with Gloucester Knights pumps his res above what most magic enemies could mess with. Now I want to give some context for those numbers
Warlock Lorenz with Gloucester Knights, magic staff, and Ferdie backpack is guaranteed 47 magic attack with sagittae and 55 with ragnarok. That’s before rally magic. With that in mind sagittae can hit some of those benchmarks for free and ragnarok hits most of them. Even an unboosted Lorenz can make an effective sweeper at times. You should make use of that.
However, if you want Lorenz to kill every last one of them and be OP as hell, you want him to hit all the benchmarks with sagittae. That way he’ll kill most of the maps without running into ammo problems. With that in mind, +8 magic from boosters is the ideal amount. It’s just enough for him to beat almost all the mid 50s thresholds.
Look for spots where you can skip the magic staff so you can have Thyrsus or knowledge gem.
Class path Monk -> Mage/Cavalier -> Warlock/Paladin -> Dark knight
When Lorenz can sweep with b. vantage, warlock gets way better than paladin. Even so, it’s a good option to have for some maps.
Also, don’t give Lorenz the statboosters until he’s certified for warlock. I assume most readers know what class bases are but I wanted to be careful here because it’s actually a big deal.
Rank priorities
D reason -> D faith -> D authority -> C Reason -> C+ lances -> B+ reason and B authority -> C+ riding -> S reason
When these are done consider A authority, A+ riding, C faith and S+ reason. If Lorenz sweeps the entire midgame, black tomefaire’s pretty doable and helps him keep it going in part 2.
Skill Loadout